Born near Hull. Joint pastor of the Islington Union Chapel from 1843/4 with Thomas Lewis, taking sole charge on Lewis's death in 1852, until his own death. Friends with Gladstone and Asquith (who was a member of the congregation). He also oversaw the building of the current Union Chapel.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Rev. Henry Allon
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Union Chapel
The two pastors are Lewis, the first, and, Allon, the one that oversaw the er...
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Society of Friends in London
English Buildings has a good short intro to Quakers in England and an assessment of an important Quaker building, albeit, not in London. Quakers were active in the WW2 Kindertransport.
3 memorials
St Edmund King & Martyr, Lombard Street
Destroyed in the Great Fire. The new building by Wren, 1670-1679, was damaged by bombing in 1917 but survives.
1 memorial
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning
Born Totteridge. Ordained into the Church of England in 1833, the same year he married Caroline Sargent, who died in 1837, childless. Member of the Oxford Movement and converted to Catholicism in...
1 memorial
Rev. Thomas Boys
The generous incumbent of Holy Trinity, Hoxton in 1864. Theologian and antiquary; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1817; attached to military cheat in Peninsula, 1813; ordained, 1822: incumbent of ...
2 memorials
Benjamin Waugh
Social reformer and minister. Born in Settle, Yorkshire. Whilst working in the slums of Greenwich, he became appalled at the deprivations and cruelties suffered by children. He wrote 'The Gaol Crad...
4 memorials
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MOTH Hackney WW2 memorial
E9, Valette Street, MOTH
That ". . . " suggests that the preceding words are a quotation. The best we can come up with is "The future's not ours to see. Que ser...
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Royal Military Asylum / Duke of York's Royal Military School
From RBKC document: "...the Royal Military Asylum for the Children of Soldiers of the Regular Army, which opened in 1803. Most of the thousand or so children were orphans; others had fathers servin...
1 memorial
Handley Page V/1500
A British night-flying heavy bomber built by Handley Page towards the end of WWW1. It was a four-engine biplane, which resembled a larger version of the earlier O/100 and O/400 bombers, and was int...
1 memorial
Paul McCartney
Musician and songwriter. Born Liverpool. One of the four Beatles. March 1969 married Linda Eastman.
3 memorials
Robert Browning Settlement
SE17, Walworth Road, 195
The quotation is from Browning's poem 'Saul': "I have gone the whole round of creation: I saw and I spoke: I, a work of God's hand for t...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator